Can we check if some values fall in a range if we have the sum of values?

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I have a set of natural numbers.

Is there a way to check out whether all the numbers fall in a range, say from 10 to 20, by looking at their sum.

Or is their any such property of a range which helps us to identify it?

Where I am coming from :

I just had a look at this question at Stack Overflow and I thought it would be nice just to look at the directory size to finalize that all the files inside it are having a size in a particular range.

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Say you have two numbers x and y. If they are both in the range 10 to 20, then the sum is in the range 20 to 40. On the other hand, (x-100) + (y+100) has the same sum, and x-100, y+100 are both outside the range. You would need more information.